BIRMINGHAM, UK—“I’ve not stopped smiling since the opening curtain,” said finance director Peter Hislop, who saw Shen Yun Performing Arts at the ICC Birmingham Hall on Jan. 7.
“Absolutely mesmerizing … It’s absolutely stunning,” he said, “the costumes, the design, the way it flows, and the dancing technique is so special.”
“I just thought this was beyond—absolutely beyond!”
Based in New York, Shen Yun Performing Arts is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company. Along with folk dances and solo performances, the production includes story-based pieces that tell tales from ancient times to the modern day.
Since Shen Yun’s inception in 2006, its mission has been to revive the traditional culture of China which has been on the brink of extinction since the Chinese communist regime seized power in 1949….